Last November, Stephane Bern had announced to leave Paris by treating the capital of “trash can“. This Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at the microphone of Europe 1, the host wanted to explain his remarks which caused controversy.
His decision has been made. Last November, Stephane Bern has announced that he will be leaving Paris after living there for 47 years. It is in particular because of the quality of life which has seriously deteriorated there, according to him, that he made this choice. “I am always amazed by its beauty, but I deplore a general carelessness, and even a certain ugliness. Paris has become a trash can where people get rid of everything, anywhere and anyhow. Where has the City of Light gone? “, he said in the columns of the Parisian. “Changing things, I have nothing against, but not if it is to destroy our visual heritage and even less if it is to make less beautiful”, he continued.
“Traffic is an incredible source of tension. Cars against pedestrians, scooters against bicycles, scooters against cars… This wheel war is unbearable. Bicycles, for example, roll in the wrong direction, bite on sidewalks, do not respect a traffic light. Scooters are abandoned everywhere. It’s anarchic and dangerous“, the history buff also explained. Words that had caused controversy. Stephane Bern therefore settled in the countryside in order to flee the capital.
“I don’t have that jaded side”
Invited to the microphone of Europe 1 this Tuesday, December 28, 2021, the presenter of History secrets returned to his criticisms of Paris. “I criticized the dirtiness of the city and especially the heritage degradation that reigns as well as incivility. There, I am in the Perche, it is calm. I have chickens, I have a goat, I have geese and things are going very well. I do a cure, I see humans all year round, that feels a bit good. “, he confided. “But I don’t have the Parisian spirit. I don’t have that jaded side, which looks at the rest of France with a few givers of lessons. I like to get in touch with my compatriots “, says Stephane Bern, who does not seem to regret his decision, quite the contrary.